The news comes after last week’s Supreme Court decisions to stay Obama’s Clean Power Plan. And Eduardo Porter explains in the NYT how the appointment of a new Supreme Court Justice (to replace Justice Antonin Scalia) will be crucial for the climate.

In California, where climate change has been intensifying the drought, Laura Bliss from CityLab reports on a Pacific Institute study that finds the drought is also intensifying climate change. This is because of shifts away from hydropower and towards dirtier forms of energy as a result.